Kate Hudson goes through the five stages of rom-dramedy grief — I-will-survive perky; shop-till-you-drop denial; I-need-a-makeover anger; walk-in-the-rain pouty; bop-to-the-pop acceptance — in “A Little Bit of Heaven,” which is a little bit of hell. Hudson plays Marley, a New Orleans adwoman whose emotionally carefree life of flighty dippiness and empty sex ends when she gets a diagnosis of colon cancer. She has no chance of survival, but her cute doctor (Gael Garcia Bernal) tells her there is an experimental cure — which, he adds, won’t result in Marley losing any of her lustrous golden curls. (It’s more likely Hudson’s agent said that before filming began.) Newly deep-ified because she’s aware of her own mortality, Marley has visions of an afterlife in which God takes the form of Whoopi Goldberg. (“I love Whoopi!” squeals Marley. “Me too!” chortles the Deity, in the form of the “View” co-host.) Marley then goes through the business of dying: Telling her parents (Kathy Bates, Treat Williams) to get along, deciding who among her pals — including Rosemarie DeWitt, Romany Malco and Lucy Punch — should get her dog, and, of course, falling in love with the cute doctor. Ethics be damned. Bernal’s physician falls… Read full this story

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